I remember watching a BBC Horizon program about longevity. Apparently sitting still for even an hour at a time is seriously bad for your health. These days I take keeping moving pretty seriously. I’ve got a lot of computer work to do, but I push the limits of what’s possible while mobile… But not at the expense of productivity.

UPDATE 16 October 2013: Although I still love the concept of LightPaper, I have recently re-discovered the beautify and simplicity of Weebly (this site is made using it) and now blog direct either via a browser, or their great mobile app.

Background

Markdown Markdown is a relatively new, and very clever system for writing a simplified version of html. It’s particularly suited to mobile devices as all those funny characters are a nightmare to type on touch keyboards. Give it a try, it’s also popping up in a lot of web services like Trello.

WordPress I was stuck between the popular and hugely customisable WordPress, and Tumblr… Until Tumblr got taken over by Yahoo which makes me nervous. Will they continue the service, or close it and assimilate it?

You have two options with WordPress: host yourself with WordPress.org, or go for the easy but less flexible WordPress.Com. I went with to the latter, and if you’re not technical you can start with one and move to the other later.

My Process

Write initial draft on mobile device using LightPaper Pro on the move

Email the HTML to myself (LightPaper automatically produces this)

Back at my MacBook I copy and paste this to WordPress, add images and links and publish

How does your blogging work flow work? What problems are you trying to solve?